incorporates

Verb

incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated)

1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
   • The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.

   Synonyms:

   absorb, add on, assimilate, co-opt, corporate, incorpse, integrate, subsume, swallow

2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
   • Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.
   • The company was incorporated in 1980.
5. (US) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
   • By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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